Alaska Statutes Title 23, Chapter 23.20, Article 01 - Administration

• Sec. 23.20.005 Purpose.
  (a) This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes to promote employment security by increasing opportunities for placement through the maintenance of...
• Sec. 23.20.010 Policy.
  As a guide to the interpretation and application of this chapter, the public policy of the state is declared to be as follows: Economic...
• Sec. 23.20.012 , 23.20.015. Policy on Temporary Unemployment Compensation; Annual Report. [Repealed, Sec. 25 Ch 122 Sla 1977].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 23.20.020 Maintenance and Protection of Fund.
  If possible, there shall be provided in the fund a reserve against the liability in future years to pay benefits. Whenever the department believes...
• Sec. 23.20.021 Certain Appropriations to the Fund.
  In accordance with AS 37.07 (Executive Budget Act), the legislature may appropriate money to the fund.
• Sec. 23.20.022 Actuarial Studies.
  On December 1, 1975, the commissioner shall submit to the governor an actuarial study of the unemployment tax and benefit structures established under this...
• Sec. 23.20.025 Establishment of Employment Security Advisory Council. [Repealed, Sec. 16 Ch 61 Sla 1995. for Alaska Human Resource Investment Council, See As 23.15.550 et Seq].
  
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 23.20.030 Director.
  (a) Subject to AS 23.20.035 , the department shall appoint a director. The director shall administer this chapter under the authority which the department...
• Sec. 23.20.035 Duties and Powers of Director.
  (a) The director, in accordance with AS 23.20.020 and 23.20.030, shall employ persons, including a deputy director, make expenditures, require reports, make investigations, and...
• Sec. 23.20.040 Qualifications of Director.
  A person may not be appointed director unless the person is a citizen of the United States and qualified by training and experience to...
• Sec. 23.20.045 Regulations.
  The department may adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) necessary to administer this chapter.
• Sec. 23.20.050 Publications.
  The department shall have printed for distribution to the public the text of this chapter, the department's regulations, the annual reports of the commissioner...
• Sec. 23.20.055 Department Records; Admissibility.
  (a) The department may make summaries, compilations, photographs, duplications, or reproductions of records, reports, or transcripts of them which it considers advisable for the...
• Sec. 23.20.060 Oaths and Witnesses.
  In administering this chapter, the department may administer oaths and affirmations, take depositions, certify to official acts, and issue subpoenas to compel the attendance...
• Sec. 23.20.065 Subpoenas.
  In case of contumacy, or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, the superior court may, upon application by the department, issue...
• Sec. 23.20.070 Self-Incrimination.
  A person may not be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records before the department, or...
• Sec. 23.20.075 Acquisition of Land and Buildings.
  (a) The department may acquire in the name of the state by term purchase agreements based on competitive bids in accordance with AS 36.30...
• Sec. 23.20.077 Application for Demonstration Programs.
  (a) The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall pursue application with appropriate agencies to qualify this state as a pilot state for demonstration...
• Sec. 23.20.080 Federal-State Cooperation.
  (a) In the administration of this chapter, the department shall cooperate, to the extent consistent with this chapter, with the Secretary of Labor, and...
• Sec. 23.20.081 Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program. [Repealed, Sec. 9, 15 Ch 28 Sla 1993].
  Repealed or Renumbered
• Sec. 23.20.085 Interstate Benefit Payments.
  (a) The department shall enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and duly authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government, or both,...
• Sec. 23.20.090 Reciprocal Coverage and Cooperation.
  (a) The commissioner may enter into reciprocal arrangements with appropriate and authorized agencies of other states or of the federal government, or both, whereby,...
• Sec. 23.20.095 Exchange of Services, Facilities, and Information.
  (a) The administration of this chapter and of other state and federal unemployment compensation and public employment service laws will be promoted by cooperation...
• Sec. 23.20.100 Public Employment Offices.
  The department shall establish and maintain free public employment offices in the number and in the places which may be necessary for the administration...
• Sec. 23.20.105 Employing Units to Keep Records and Reports.
  An employing unit shall keep work records containing information which the department prescribes. The records shall be open to inspection and may be copied...
• Sec. 23.20.110 Information Obtained by Department.
  (a) Except for disclosures required by 42 U.S.C. 503, as amended, and 20 C.F.R. 603, as amended, and disclosures authorized under this section, the...
• Sec. 23.20.115 Unauthorized Disclosure of Information.
  A member of the department, an employee of the department, an agent of the department, or an officer or employee of a state, federal,...
• Sec. 23.20.120 Examination of Bank.
  The department may request the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States to make or have made an examination of the correctness of...
• Sec. 23.20.125 Data to Be Collected. [Repealed, Sec. 1 Ch 74 Sla 1965].
  Repealed or Renumbered

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